BIICELAND, FRANCIS TREVELYAN, a son of the rev. Dr. Buckland (q.v.), b. at Christ. Church college, Oxford, Dec. 17, 1826. He was educated at Winchester school, and at Christ Church college, Oxford. He devoted himself to the study of medicine; and after being house-surgeon of St. George's hospital, London, was appointed assistant-surgeon to the 2d life-guards in 1S54, retiring in 1863. From his boyhood, he manifested an enthusiastic delight in natural history, especially when it could be applied practically to the cultivation of useful quadrupeds, birds, or fish, in which study he was encouraged and guided by his father. He has contributed a vast number of brief papers on various branches of his favorite science to the Times, Field, Queen, Land and Water (of which he is editor), etc. He is also the author of Curiosities of Natural History (Load. 1857; second series, 1860; third series, 2 vols., 1866); of a work entitled Fish-hatching (Loud. 1S63); and Logbook of a Fisherman and Zoologist (1876); and editor of a new edition of his father's Bridgewater treatise (Routledge, 1858); and of White's ,Selborne (1876). He
was first secretary to the acclimatization society of Great Britain and Ireland. He is an acute observer, and his writings on subjects of natural history in great part exhibit the results of fresh and original observations, which his sprightly style exhibits in a most interesting manner. He has long taken a great interest in fish-culture, and has been actively concerned in the recent endeavors to promote it in England. He has, at his own cost, established under the science and art department, South Kensington, a "museum of economic fish-culture," illustrating the natural history of salmon and sea fish by means of plaster-casts, which he makes with his own hands, and by preparations and dissections in spirits. In 1867, B. was appointed inspector of salmon fisheries for England and Wales, and, in 1870, special commissioner on the salmon fisheries of Scot land, and in 1877 on the Scotch herring fisheries.